Sharing secrets or strategies only takes you so far. It requires execution to actually have success with those tips. If you don’t have the passion, or frankly, the skill to compete, then it doesn’t matter how much I share. But if you do, and the advice given helps you even just a little bit, you’ll be an ally for life.

The worst checking error is calling people dead who are not dead. In the words of Joshua Hersh, “It really annoys them.” Sara remembers a reader in a nursing home who read in The New Yorker that he was “the late” reader in the nursing home. He wrote demanding a correction. The New Yorker, in its next issue, of course complied, inadvertently doubling the error, because the reader died over the weekend while the magazine was being printed.